for this project I’m only looking at acquisitions made between 1933 and 1945. That amounts to about 1,200 works. In the first phase of the project, that number was reduced still further. First, I checked
complicated provenance. The Museum für Asiatische Kunst has been closed to the public since January 1, 2017, while we get everything ready for the move to the Humboldt Forum. I have long been planning to [...] than 8,000 sheets has never been digitally recorded in its entirety, only in…
descriptions in the catalogues raisonné and auction catalogues of 1934, it must have contained over 1,000 individual works of art. For this reason, MARI’s most important tasks are to reconstruct the inventory
instructions described in detail the order in which the inventory of the Louvre was to be distributed: “1. The art objects whose future use the Führer has reserved the right to decide, 2. The art objects that [...] or Leningrad for storage. As a gesture to its socialist “brothers,” the…
we have: the original manuscripts of the 4th, 5th, 8th and 9th symphonies, and Piano Concertos no. 1-3 and 5. Why does the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin have so many of Beethoven’s best works? Part of the
introduced it as a pilot project on January 1, 2018 – but at the time, our terms of use still said something completely different. Now we have changed them, as of January 1, 2019, and tried to make access even
models and some in original size. One of these projects is the installation Codex Humboldt Fragment 1/Codex Azoyú Reverso . Financed by the Freundeskreis des Ethnologischen Museums (Friends of the Ethnological [...] pictorial manuscripts during his visit to New Spain. Probably the best…
special exhibits. Despite the initial euphoria, it soon became obvious that the available subsidy of 3.1 million euros would limit the ambitious plans. So for some time, there has been talk of a second phase